Chemo Cycle 5 – Day 1 & 2

Once again, his chemo treatments are late in the day this cycle. He did not get finished and hooked from Wall-e (that is what he named his IV pole) for his first chemo dose until 10:00 in the morning Tuesday.

The doctor decided to have a few other “specialists” come in and check on a few things. He has started with a few more “side-effects” last week and the doctor wants to make sure they are just “side-effects” from the chemo and not a new problem we will have to look at. The specialist came by and spoke with Michael and did an exam. She ordered a few tests and put him on another medication (more pills, he just can’t stand taking pills). There are a few more tests they want to run, but they do not want to be running those tests while he is doing chemo. We will either have those done right before his next cycle depending on his counts or after cycle 6 before he begins radiation.

They began his day 2 pre-hydration around 5:00 last night. He did ok. He had a little nausea. He didn’t get finished with all his pre-meds, chemo and post-meds until around 8:00 this morning. With them running his treatment so late and through the night, he is not getting any sleep. His color looks good at this point, but you can see where the fatigue has set in. His blood counts look ok for the point we are at in his cycle.

He will probably not start his treatment until this afternoon again. This does give him time for the tests the other doctors want to run while he is here but it makes for a long day for the both of us.